A Place in the World

Apr 9, 1992

2h 1m

★ 7.3

Overview

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Transmundo Films

INCAA

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Cast

Mario

Federico Luppi

Ernesto

Gastón Batyi

Hans

José Sacristán

Ana

Cecilia Roth

Nelda

Leonor Benedetto

Andrada

Rodolfo Ranni

Zamora

Hugo Arana

Silvia

Nathalie Poza

Luciana

Lorena Del Rio

Juan

Mario Alarcón

Don Gregorio

Juan José Ghisalberti

Locutor

Marcos Woinsky

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